Moms do so much for us, and none of us would be here without them. So on this Mother’s Day weekend, we wanted to share an inspiring story about one mother (actually, a grandmother!) who goes above and beyond to take care of an entire community. Darlene Arviso, known as “The Water Lady,” hauls water for…

Water flow has returned to all sections of the Little Lehigh Creek since the steady rainfall in late November. Fortunately, precipitation has been steady since then – at least enough to keep the Little Lehigh flowing. Rain is in the forecast again the week of January 8, which is promising. Here are two pictures from…

We’ve written before about the pros and cons of fake vs. artificial trees (real trees win — artificial trees are made up of plastics and heavy metals) — but what do you do to keep wreaths and trees green through the holiday season? We did some digging and compiled a few tips from Rodale’s Organic…

You can count on three things every July 4th: freedom, fireworks … and injuries. Each year, according to the Consumer Products Safety Commission, “230 people on average go the emergency room every day with fireworks-related injuries in the month around the July 4th holiday.” The most injured body parts were hands and fingers, with eyes, faces…

You may have noticed “Red Flag Warnings” in the news and on weather sites in recent weeks. A Red Flag Warning is issued when the danger of wildfire is elevated, and the low humidity and breezy conditions of the past few weeks have done exactly that. According the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources’…

A Washington Post story reports that the drought that’s been gripping the southwest is relatively minor compared with what could be coming down the pike. According to the article, a study by researchers from NASA, Cornell and Columbia universities states that “there is an 80 percent chance” that an extended drought called a megadrought “will strike…

As we wrap up the long Thanksgiving weekend, we’d like to mention a few things we’re thankful for at LCA. This is by no means a complete list; we’d run out of room long before we even got close. In no particular order, then, here are a few of them: 1.) The Clean Water Act …

It’s almost the Fourth of July; the day on which we celebrate America’s adoption of the Declaration of Independence. It’s a holiday that goes hand-in-hand with fireworks, but it’s also a time in which thousands of Americans — many of them children — are injured because of careless or incorrect fireworks use. According to the Consumer Product…